Name: 2023 Workplace Collaboration MetriStar Award Winners
Start: 2023-08-15T15:00:00Z
End: 2023-08-15T15:00:41.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Metrigy is an innovative research and strategic advisory firm that analyzes enterprise success metrics to advise companies on their technology transformation strategies.

Founded by Robin Gareiss and Irwin Lazar, both renowned technology analysts and content developers, Metrigy focuses on some of the coolest and most interesting technologies:

Digital transformation and digital workplace,
Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC),
Customer Experience (CX) and contact center,
Artificial intelligence and analytics.

Successfully migrating Cisco Unified Communications Manager to Webex Calling requires a proactive approach for PSTN access management and dialplan transition. Key requirements include ensuring reliability and performance of voice traffic as well as maintaining support for local site survivability to ensure resilience. Service providers certified for Cloud Connect for Webex Calling offer a seamless way for organizations to take advantage of the benefits of cloud calling while minimizing risk.
In this webinar we’ll share insights and best practices for migration of Cisco on-premises, and cloud-hosted calling to the cloud and deliver practical guidance to ensure success.

Migrating Your Cisco CUCM to the Cloud

Connected workspace applications and platforms enable organizations to create a single location from which employees can accomplish, communicate about/collaborate on, discover important information for, and manage their work. In this webinar, Metrigy’s Beth Schultz, VP of research and principal analyst, will share insights from recently published research on connected workspaces and collaborative work management. You’ll learn:
- Defining characteristics of a connected workspace, from core capabilities to AI/generative AI advancements
- How connected workspace apps/platforms can address organizational and technology pain points
- Characteristics of successful implementations
- Which vendors play in this space, and how they differentiate themselves

Connected Workspace: Getting Work Done, Collaboratively

In this episode, Metrigy's Diane Myers talks with Greg Zweig, senior director of solutions marketing at Ribbon, about what Microsoft's decision to shutter its Azure for Operators business means for service providers using Metaswitch solutions. They'll discuss near-term steps operators can take to enusre their voice networks remain operational, as well as what they should be thinking of longer term.

MetriSight Ep.69 - Repercussions of Microsoft Closing its Azure for Operators Business

Metrigy's Irwin Lazar takes us inside the MetriStar program and shares which providers have earned Top Provider Awards, based on customer sentiment scores and customer business success, and award highlights.

MetriSight Ep.68 - Workplace Collaboration MetriStars 2024: Overview & Winners

Metrigy has published its second-annual ranking of CCaaS providers, based on market share, financials, market share momentum, product mix, customer sentiment, and customer business success. In this episode, discover why NICE gets the No. 1 spot--again--and find out which other vendors made the cut.

MetriSight Ep.67 - Inside Metrigy's CCaaS MetriRank 2024

In this episode we talk with Mark Ewing, Product Management Director for Google Meet, Rooms, and Voice about Google's vision and plans for hybrid meetings. We'll get Mark's take on how Google is evolving their meeting device partnerships and portfolio to meet the need for equitable meetings for both in-office and remote participants and how Mark sees AI impacting meeting experiences going forward.

MetriSight Ep.66 - Chatting about Google Meet

As companies increasingly adopt generative AI they do so with growing risk of misues, hallucinations, poisoning, and the need to ensure compliance for AI generated content. In this webinar we'll share insights into what companies are doing today (or not doing) to address generative AI security and compliance issues and provide guidance for adoption. Attendees will learn:
- The state of generative AI adoption
- Key security and compliance issues
- The state of generative AI security 
- The role of third-party tools in ensuring security and compliance
- How to successfully craft a gen AI security and compliance strategy

Tackling GenAI Security and Compliance Issues

Gaining competitive advantage requires careful focus and action. Foremost, you have to know the baseline and topline is for any business measurement. That’s where benchmarking comes in, but many companies either don’t do it—or they don’t do it properly. 

Benchmarking has become a vital practice for successful companies in their adoption and application of customer-facing technologies. By evaluating what successful companies are doing, they can adjust their own strategies to continually raise the bar for a better customer experience.

During this webinar, we’ll discuss the benefits of benchmarking and how to avoid the pitfalls. We’ll also show a real-world tool to help you benchmark your CX strategy against those demonstrating the highest measurable improvements. We will address these questions:

- How and why can you get benefits from benchmarking?
- What are the “gotchas” when evaluating your performance compared to other companies?
- How do you know if a web-based benchmarking tool is solid?
- What can you learn from 8x8’s benchmarking tool that you may not know today?

Why Contact Center Benchmarking Matters: Benefits and Pitfalls of Comparisons

Whitney Meer, an applied AI expert with NICE, explains why knowledge management is really all about AI management today, requirements for doing it well, AI trends to watch, and more.

MetriSight Ep.65 - What to Know About Knowledge Management in an AI World

In this episode, Metrigy's Irwin Lazar walks us through what's going well, and not so well, in collaboration and contact center security today, and shares tips for how to get it right. Based on Metrigy's recently published Workplace Collaboration and Contact Center Security and Compliance: 2024-25 study.

MetriSight Ep.64 - Getting Your Security House in Order

John Hurley, head of product marketing for Notion, explains the company's approach to collaborative work management... and shares why, as an entrepreneur at heart, he finds personal value in Notion.

MetriSight Ep.63 - What's in a Connected Workspace?

Businesses are rapidly rolling out AI, along with the associated automations, for customer interactions. But what do consumers think of these technology advancements? Join this webinar for the highlights of Metrigy's latest research study that examines consumer preferences when it comes to interacting with businesses. Metrigy CEO and Principal Analyst Robin Gareiss will answer the following: 
- Is AI making customer service better or worse? 
- Where are the gaps and alignments in what businesses offer and what customers want?
- As a CX leader, what are you doing right and wrong--from your customers' perspective?

Do Consumers Like AI When Interacting With Businesses?

Securing communications and collaboration applications is getting increasingly complex. New features, often based on generative AI are quickly becoming available. At the same time, risks to applications, privacy, and data continue to grow. In this webinar we'll share the results of our Workplace Collaboration and Contact Center Security and Compliance 2024-25 research study and provide IT, business, and informations security leaders with insights into:
- Emerging security threats
- Successful organizational and budgeting strategies
- How to assess providers
- How companies are addressing generative AI security concerns
- The use of third party security platforms

Securing Your Collaboration and Communications Applications

From AI bot adoption to spending drivers for contact center platforms, Metrigy's Diane Myers shares a few research snippets from Metrigy's Customer Experience MetriCast 2024 global buyer-side market study.

MetriSight Ep.62 - CX MetriCast 2024: Key Takeaways

Ep.61- Realizing Collaboration ROI via Compliance; a Conversation with Theta Lake CEO Devin Redmond

New collaboration applications and features are rapidly transforming employee and customer engagement. But for regulated companies to achieve success, they must ensure that application adoption meets compliance requirements. Here from Theta Lake, a leader in compliance solutions for emerging collaboration applications, as we discuss what IT, business, and compliance leaders need to do to maximize ROI and productivity.

MetriSight Ep.61- Realizing Collaboration ROI via Compliance

Tune in to discover which vendors have earned our prestigious MetriStar Top Provider Award across 12 CX technology categories, and which additional providers get the nod on earning high customer sentiment ratings and a high percentage of companies in the category success group--and share in our big round of applause to all winners!

MetriSight Ep.60 - 2024 CX MetriStar Award Winner Recap

Whether you run a small healthcare practice or a midsize hospital system, embracing the right technology will deliver measurable benefits. Healthcare is somewhat behind other industries when it comes to applying technology to daily operations, but even small changes will deliver big results. 

When companies integrate Electronic Health Records (EHR) with their cloud-based communications systems (including contact centers and internal employee collaboration), they will see improvements in patient experience, operational efficiency and revenue. Couple that with powerful AI applications in the contact center, and patient experience scores will soar.

This webinar will give you strategic guidance, based on real-world research data from Metrigy CEO & Principal Analyst Robin Gareiss. You’ll also hear from Vonage’s SVP & Chief Technology Architect, Sanjay Srinivasan about how customers are using Vonage’s healthcare products and services today—and what benefits they’re driving. We’ll share insights and recommendations, and answer the following questions:
-- What value are healthcare practices and their patients uncovering through integrating Electronic Medical Records with cloud communications platforms, patient experience technology, and AI?
-- How are healthcare organizations driving operational efficiencies by leveraging technologies to improve clinical and patient experience?
-- What technologies help hospitals and practices drive more revenue, while also better serving patient needs?
-- How do you select a technology partner you can trust to understand the nuances of healthcare to gain the most value for your investment?

Crucial Technology Changes that Drive Value for Healthcare Companies & Patients

Speakers:
- Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst, Metrigy
- Garth Landers, Director of Product Marketing, Theta Lake
- Dan Nadir, Chief Product Officer, Theta Lake

New collaboration applications and features are rapidly transforming employee and customer engagement. To achieve maximum business benefit, regulated companies must be able to take advantage of these capabilities while also meeting compliance requirements. Failure to implement a proactive and future proof strategy not only reduces productivity, but potentially raises risk of non-compliance from employee use of non-permitted applications. In this webinar we’ll share approaches and best practices for ensuring that companies can achieve maximum value from their collaboration investments, while also meeting appropriate compliance requirements. Attendees will learn:
- How emerging collaboration, including generative AI features, enable improved productivity
- The risks of non-compliance
- How to ensure that your compliance strategy evolves to meet ever-changing technology improvements
- How compliance platforms optimized for collaboration can drive productivity improvements

Say “Yes” to UCC Compliance for Better User Productivity and Lower Risk

Metrigy's MetriStar awards recognizes those providers who are both highly rated by their customers, and whose customers have achieved measurable success for their investments. The awards are based on data gathered from hundreds of IT leaders in North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Metrigy will announce the Top Providers in several areas of Workplace Collaboration technologies, including:
- Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS)
- Meeting applications
- Team collaboration applications
- Video room system equipment
- Headsets
- UC administrative management platforms
- UC performance management platforms
- SIP trunking

2023 Workplace Collaboration MetriStar Award Winners

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